http://hechingered.org/content/widespread-dissatisfaction-with-new-teacher-evaluations-in-tennessee_5126/ By The Hechinger Report Mon, 13 May 2013 20:45:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://hechingered.org/content/widespread-dissatisfaction-with-new-teacher-evaluations-in-tennessee_5126/comment-page-1/#comment-678 PhillipMarlowe Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:07:33 +0000 http://hechingered.org/?p=5126#comment-678 The most specific is a call for the state to change the weighting of measures for teachers of subjects that don’t have standardized tests. Such teachers make up two-thirds of Tennessee’s teaching force. Under the current system, those teachers receive ratings based on school-wide test-scores. That is, their ratings are based largely on how students perform on standardized tests in other teachers’ classes.
Someday we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

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